Paramount Home Media has selected Dec. 10 as the
street for the six-part mini-series adaptation of the Joseph Heller’s 1961
masterpiece, Catch-22.
Drawing the coveted role of Capt. John Yossarian is Christopher
Abbott (First Man, Martha Marcy May Marlene, James White,
etc.).
If you read the book or if you have seen the
director Mike Nichols’ 1970 film adaptation of Heller’s book, starring Alan
Arkin as Yossarian, then you already know the punch line. The “Catch-22” is that if you are crazy you
don’t have to fly any more bombing missions over Germany. All you have to do is ask to be grounded,
but the moment you ask, that’s a rational act and therefore you are not
crazy. 25 is the number of missions and
then you get to go home, except the number keeps changing.
In the original film, Nichols had to cram as much as
he could into 122 minutes. With the
six-part mini-series, tag-team directors (each doing two of the six segments), Ellen
Kuras (two-time Emmy-winner for Jane and P.O.V.,
plus Oscar-nominated for her documentary titled The
Betrayal: Nerakhoon), Grant Heslov (Oscar-winner for
his production of Argo,
plus nominated for Oscars for his scripts, The Ides
of March and Good
Night, Good Luck) and George Clooney (who also
plays the role of Scheisskopf) can expand the presentation to include
additional characters and more of the storyline.
All of the production values are top-notch
(Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Special Visual Effects and Outstanding Sound
Editing for a Limited Series).
In other home entertainment packaged media release
news from Paramount Home Media this week, writer/director David Raymond’s
creep-out serial killer thriller, Night Hunter, has
been added to the Oct. 15 mix of products as both DVD and Blu-ray selections.
Already in place on that date are Blu-ray editions
of Crawl
(also DVD), The Haunting of Hill
(also DVD), Star Trek: Picard - Movie & TV Collection and
16-disc set of Twin Peaks: The Television Collection.
Simon (Brendan Fletcher — Freddy
vs. Jason, Rampage, RV) is a serial killer and
the police have him in custody, but to build their case against him, Harper,
the near-manic police commissioner (Stanley Tucci) wants detective Marshall (played
by Henry Cavill), a man with domestic problems, to put everything aside and
fast-track his investigation because one of his victims, a young girl, might
not be dead (yet).
Helping Marshall is a methodical profiler by the
name of Rachel (Alexandra Daddario — Baywatch,
San Andreas), who has her ways of dealing
with nut jobs, but that doesn’t please the girl’s father, a former judge by the
name of Cooper (Ben Kingsley), who, as it turns out, has been using his
daughter as bait to catch pedophiles and dispense his own special brand of
“justice” to them.
The serial killer may be locked up, but the clock is
ticking for Cooper’s daughter and, if you can imagine this in your mind,
certain characters are essentially screaming at the top of their lungs … while
other, with problems and/or methods, try to sort things out. That sounds like “bedlam” … and it is!!!
Oh, and our little sex-killer has a booby-trapped
“sex dungeon” and that just about puts the icing on the cake!!!
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